hello there!

In my form there is a field "idCountry", but I don't want to see the number,
instead, I want to show the country name, so I changed the control to a
combobox and the rowsource is "select id,cname from countryCat"... etc. etc.

It works fine, but there is a problem, when I try to sort the data sheet by
that field (using the right click button of the mouse), actually it is sorted
by the "ID" of the country instead of its name.

I want to see the datasheet sorted by the real names of the countries, not
by its IDs

any sugestions?



Actually the data grid shows the information as I spected, but, when I use
the standar right click action of the mouse on the grid (sort A->Z, sort
Z->A, cut, copy paste, filter,...) and use the sort option, the grid is
sorted by the countries ID and that's not what I want, I want the grid sorted
by the alphanumeric name of the country



thanks in advance

Open up the query that drives the rowsource and change the sort there.
--
Milton Purdy
ACCESS
State of Arkansas


"robeito" wrote:

> hello there!
>
> In my form there is a field "idCountry", but I don't want to see the number,
> instead, I want to show the country name, so I changed the control to a
> combobox and the rowsource is "select id,cname from countryCat"... etc. etc.
>
> It works fine, but there is a problem, when I try to sort the data sheet by
> that field (using the right click button of the mouse), actually it is sorted
> by the "ID" of the country instead of its name.
>
> I want to see the datasheet sorted by the real names of the countries, not
> by its IDs
>
> any sugestions?
>
>
>
> Actually the data grid shows the information as I spected, but, when I use
> the standar right click action of the mouse on the grid (sort A->Z, sort
> Z->A, cut, copy paste, filter,...) and use the sort option, the grid is
> sorted by the countries ID and that's not what I want, I want the grid sorted
> by the alphanumeric name of the country
>
>
>
> thanks in advance